ABOUT MY PRACTICE:

My work is based on the encounter between humans and nature,
a practice which I carry out through in-depth, often interdisciplinary research, resulting in visualized interrogations about this relationship.
The aim is to enable more complex conditions for understanding, making available, and inviting for discussions about, the subjects being examined. I´m using art as a tool to communicate environmental political questions.

NEWS, LATEST AND ONGOING...

MAN AND BIOSPHERE, PRECARIOUS SITUATIONSis an interdisciplinary, site specific project initiated by me in cooperation with Kristianstads Konsthall and Naturum Vattenriket and together with a coregroup consiting of the artists Terje Östling, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Malin Lobell and the political scientist Johannes Stripple, as well as an external network of researchers and artists. The project is based on the biosphere reserve of Kristianstad Vattenrike, -2.32 m below sea level, which means that the situation in relation to a changing climate is precarious. Part of climate psychology means that we need local examples to understand and take in what is happening globally. Public start-up May 18, 2018, program during summer. Exhibition 13 Oktober 2018 - 20 Janury 2019. www.kristianstadskonsthall.se

Verkberättelser 2009-2015
is a publication in cooperation with Louise Kelpe, Graphic Designer and produced with the support from the Längmanska Culture Foundation. It´s available at the bookstore at Malmö Konsthall, Kalmar Konstmuseum and Ystads Konstmuseum. It´s also possible to order it at info@carolinemartensson.se

Massa i rörelse/Moving mass, collaborative project 2014-2016. Exhibition Kalmar Konstmuseum 5/12 - 28/02 2016, The Glass Factory August 2016.Moving Mass is the working title of a collaborative project initiated by Ingela Johansson together with Åsa Jungnelius,Johanna Gustavsson Fürst,Eva Arnqvist, Caroline Mårtensson and Malin Pettersson Öberg in late 2013. The project is taking its point of departure in Glasriket (The Kingdom of Crystal) with its geopolitical and social economic boundary, located and embedded in the South region of Sweden famous for its art and glass industry. With the project we will take interest in the specific interrelation between art and industrial production, design and craftsmanship. Moving Mass asks questions of what it means to be human and deal with the loss of a job: the legacy of a body of work as well as the arriving situation with the crisis of outsourcing and the dependency on industrial tourism. The project is conducted in collaboration with Kalmar Konstmuseum and The Glass Factory.